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The Official Kylie "Aphrodite" Era Thread!
Topic Started: Apr 20 2010, 01:51 PM (24,649 Views)
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Jun 30 2010, 10:48 PM
Hmm, I don't really agree with any of that. Mark my words, if "Everything Is Beautiful" is released(especially at Christmas), we're looking at a #17 peak scenario...if even that.

I think the title track should absolutely be the third single.
i do agree the title track is worthy enough for a single release but i fear it would be regarded as bit too samey in comparison to all the lovers and get outta my way. maybe she needs a lower paced song as the third offering. oh well, what do i know. i've grown to love everything on this album, which hardly makes me an objective source when discussing aphrodite's fortunes.
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Jun 30 2010, 11:01 PM
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Jun 30 2010, 10:48 PM
Hmm, I don't really agree with any of that. Mark my words, if "Everything Is Beautiful" is released(especially at Christmas), we're looking at a #17 peak scenario...if even that.

I think the title track should absolutely be the third single.
i do agree the title track is worthy enough for a single release but i fear it would be regarded as bit too samey in comparison to all the lovers and get outta my way. maybe she needs a lower paced song as the third offering. oh well, what do i know. i've grown to love everything on this album, which hardly makes me an objective source when discussing aphrodite's fortunes.
There isn't a song on it that I don't like. I'll admit that. Not sure if there's anything on it that I absolutely love though. I'm just glad it's not littered with shit like X, but it's far from the golden album we were led to believe it would be.

It'll be interesting to see what singles that choose after GOOMW. A lot will depend on how that single fares too.
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Jun 30 2010, 10:52 PM
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Jun 30 2010, 10:26 PM
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Jun 30 2010, 10:21 PM
out of memory, these are the first week sales figures for her parlophone studio albums

light years 40-45k
fever ~150k
body language 65-70k
x 75-80k
I think she's looking at around 60k MAXIMUM this time. All of those albums were released in the busy sales period of the last quarter. Summer album sales are always much slower.

I think the sales of recent #1 albums have been pretty low up until Eminem's.
~50k is the most realistic sales figure she can achieve at this time of the year. if she does so, she should easily beat eminem on his third week.
Yeah. There's no real competition from other albums next week. Here are the albums being released. They picked a very good week I think!

Au Revoir Simone – Night Light
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot… Son Of Chico Dusty
Cherry Ghost - Beneath This Burning Shoreline
David Ford – Let The Hard Times Roll
Delta Spirit - History From Below
The Drizabone Soul Family – All The Way
Enrique Iglesias – Euphoria
Feeder – Renegades
Gurrumul - Live In Darwin Australia (EP)
I Am Kloot - Sky At Night
Kylie Minogue – Aphrodite
Lange - Harmonic Motion
Matt Bianco – Sunshine Days: The Official Greatest Hits
Mystery Jets – Serotonin
System F – Champions
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
they did risk by setting a release date just a week after scissor sisters, but sadly enough jake's band no longer poses a threat
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Jun 30 2010, 11:07 PM
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Jun 30 2010, 11:01 PM
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Jun 30 2010, 10:48 PM
Hmm, I don't really agree with any of that. Mark my words, if "Everything Is Beautiful" is released(especially at Christmas), we're looking at a #17 peak scenario...if even that.

I think the title track should absolutely be the third single.
i do agree the title track is worthy enough for a single release but i fear it would be regarded as bit too samey in comparison to all the lovers and get outta my way. maybe she needs a lower paced song as the third offering. oh well, what do i know. i've grown to love everything on this album, which hardly makes me an objective source when discussing aphrodite's fortunes.
There isn't a song on it that I don't like. I'll admit that. Not sure if there's anything on it that I absolutely love though. I'm just glad it's not littered with shit like X, but it's far from the golden album we were led to believe it would be.

It'll be interesting to see what singles that choose after GOOMW. A lot will depend on how that single fares too.
i think the greatest achievement regarding this album was closing up the gap of quality between obvious singles and blatant filler. it's no coincidence we cannot figure out what track out of the bunch could be released as a single in the future. out of my personal past experience, i get to stick to some specific songs off a kylie album from the get go, only this time around i just go back and forth, and forth and back :wink:
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Good review from Entertainment Weekly:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20398289,00.html

The diminutive Australian diva is still delivering disco thunder from Down Under. ''Dance,'' she assures us at Aphrodite's outset, ''it's all I wanna do.'' Given the disc's sleek electro-pop grooves — honed in part by Madonna 
collaborator Stuart Price — her fans are sure to second that (loco)motion. Her only misstep: the snoozy ballad ''Everything Is Beautiful.'' A–
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Slant magazine review. Spot-on!

Aphrodite

**½ out of *****

by Sal Cinquemani on July 1, 2010

The varied, some might say scattershot, production style of Kylie Minogue's 2007 album X was lamented in these very pages, but like its predecessor, the underrated Body Language, the album's strength was the Aussie pop star's willingness to toy with her sound. Without risks, there can be no rewards, and for every awkwardly forced attempt to mine stateside trends, like "Nu-Di-Ty," there was a more successful genre experiment, like "Speakerphone."

Minogue's Aphrodite, however, is the sound of an artist playing it safe. It's more stylistically coherent than the abovementioned albums, but it yields far fewer surprises. There's no "Sensitized" or "Slow" here. Instead, we get an entire album's worth of tracks like "Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)" and "Too Much," which could be described as "classic Kylie." That will no doubt please longtime fans, but it also means Aphrodite is nothing more than just another Kylie Minogue album; it doesn't add much to her otherwise diverse catalogue or push her forward in any meaningful way, as both Body Language and 1997's Impossible Princess did. To quote "Better Than Today," one of the new songs on the album: "What's the point of living if you don't take a chance?"

It took me a while to warm up to the simple pleasures of Minogue's U.S. breakthrough, Fever, and it's possible the same could happen here: Lead single "All the Lovers" gets better with each listen. Its anthemic hook, reminiscent of vintage Erasure and Pet Shop Boys, wafts past your ears like a summer breeze. But too much of Aphrodite is so lightweight and inconsequential that it's liable to get whisked away and forgotten altogether. The entire album has the sonic consistency of cotton candy: It won't exactly give you a headache, but it could leave you with a stomachache.

Aphrodite was executive-produced by Stuart Price, the man behind Madonna's celebrated opus Confessions on an Dance Floor, and though the tracks he produced here stand out, the album is a reminder that Price hasn't really done anything truly notable since his work with the Queen of Pop. Predictably, he continues to make subtle nods to dance hits past ("Closer" channels both Cerrone and Daft Punk), but his production style still feels cheap—and I'm not just talking about his fondness for artificial strings, exemplified on "Looking for an Angel" and "Illusion." The slick, antiseptic quality of his songs is the total opposite of what's required for an artist like Minogue, whose squeaky-clean voice begs to be dirtied up, not shellacked.
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ATL has tumbled from its peak of #29 in Spain, to #46 this week.

It has only gone top 10 in a handful of countries.
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i don't think she's underperforming by her own standards. the single's doing quite alright in the uk albeit admittedly reasonable expectations of a chart topper. it's been top10 in big markets such as germany and italy and in smaller european countries. for the time being, the signs point to a marginally more successful era than the one of x. i'm more worried about her flopping terribly in australia. though i've noted this happened again in the distant past, it really looks like she's suffering a major backlash over there for no apparent reason. not even top10 in oz means a large portion of her hardcore fans have abandoned her. shame on u, aussie gays :angry:
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I decided to give the album another spin

Even though in the grand scheme, I do not rate the album outside of it being fluff, often very banal fluff.... it still gets my 6/10

But I'm enjoying it all the same :) I want to go gay dancing to Get OUtta My Way and Too Much!!! :drama:
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Jul 1 2010, 11:10 PM
I decided to give the album another spin

Even though in the grand scheme, I do not rate the album outside of it being fluff, often very banal fluff.... it still gets my 6/10

But I'm enjoying it all the same :) I want to go gay dancing to Get OUtta My Way and Too Much!!! :drama:
at the end of the day, this is yet another ordinary kylie album aka bonafide guilty pleasure amazing gay pop classic set. :drama:
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3 out of 5 from The Guardian

It's a shame Kylie bothers with albums – a couple of cracking singles a year would suffice, and eliminate the need for the likes of Stuart Price, Calvin Harris and, on one track, Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley to come up with enough plush padding to fill an entire album. Despite sharp production, Aphrodite is only as good as Kylie herself. And because her voice is limited to squeaks, exhalations and woe-begone sighs, it's hard to stay interested unless you happen to be on a dancefloor at 4am, which is probably the only sensible place to hear it. Lyrically, too, the emphasis on cliche ("Put your hands up if you feel love", "I'm surrounded by confusion/ I'm loving this illusion") lets her down. Perhaps thinking outside the box – an acoustic album? – is what's needed next.
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2 out of 5 from The Daily Mirror

KYLIE

Aphrodite

2/5

Why grow up or innovate when all around you are rushing to embrace their inner pop infant? Such seems to be the philosophy behind fortysomething pop survivor and adopted Brit Kylie's latest. Happily reliving her past in Get Outta My Way, she never strays too far from the comfort zone.
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The interview with her in Attitude makes for an interesting read. She basically admits to X and, to a lesser extent, Body Language being a mess. There's also a short interview with Stuart price in which he's asked why he didn't work with Madonnas again. According to him she was dissappointed in the US sales of Confessions so hooked up with Timbaland.
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Jul 2 2010, 08:51 AM
The interview with her in Attitude makes for an interesting read. She basically admits to X and, to a lesser extent, Body Language being a mess. There's also a short interview with Stuart price in which he's asked why he didn't work with Madonnas again. According to him she was dissappointed in the US sales of Confessions so hooked up with Timbaland.
Which promptly sold even less than COADF all over the planet, including the US.

Great move Madonna! :rotfl:
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Jul 2 2010, 08:56 AM
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Jul 2 2010, 08:51 AM
The interview with her in Attitude makes for an interesting read. She basically admits to X and, to a lesser extent, Body Language being a mess. There's also a short interview with Stuart price in which he's asked why he didn't work with Madonnas again. According to him she was dissappointed in the US sales of Confessions so hooked up with Timbaland.
Which promptly sold even less than COADF all over the planet, including the US.

Great move Madonna! :rotfl:
I know!! God love her...
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Jul 2 2010, 08:51 AM
The interview with her in Attitude makes for an interesting read. She basically admits to X and, to a lesser extent, Body Language being a mess. There's also a short interview with Stuart price in which he's asked why he didn't work with Madonnas again. According to him she was dissappointed in the US sales of Confessions so hooked up with Timbaland.
Which promptly sold even less than COADF all over the planet, including the US.

Great move Madonna! :rotfl:
:lmao:

didn't it actually sell at least 1.7m? hard candy didn't even match half of that

given its euro sound, confessions actually fared a lot better in the usa than anyone would have expected. anyone but her, it seems :manson:
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Where can we read her Attitude interview :flirt:
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I bought the vinyl LP today. :shy:
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Jul 2 2010, 09:42 PM
I bought the vinyl LP today. :shy:
GOOD BOY

i've pre-ordered all standard, special and vinyl editions. hopefully they'll arrive at some point within the week, though i'm still waiting for my three editions of the single to be safely placed in my mail box :angry:

*newsflash* i'm so set to order the japanese edition just for the sake of the wonder that heartstrings is. this gem feels like the audio equivalent of my nipples gettin sucked by my fave german porn star logan mccree
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I bought the vinyl LP today. :shy:
oh take photos i wanna see :shy:

uncut's review:

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they gave Scissor Sisters and Robyn 3 stars, cheapskates :hurt:
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